AJAS Staff

Don Shulman, President and CEO

Don joined our staff in March of 2012. Don has been working with seniors his entire career. He and his wife Debbie reside in Olney, Maryland and have 3 sons, 1 granddaughter and 2 grandsons. Don is originally from upstate New York where he received his BS degree from SUNY Plattsburgh in Nutrition and Dietetics. Don is a Registered Dietitian and completed his internship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 1979. He spent 23 years in senior dining with Marriott and then Sodexo. For the past 7 years, Don was a General Manager with Sunrise Senior Living in their full service communities in Arlington, Virginia and Bethesda, Maryland.

Rachel has been with AJAS since 2013. She started as the Communications and Membership Coordinator and is now the Director of Operations. Rachel is a proud graduate of Kent State University where she received a B.A. in Interpersonal Communications and graduated Cum Laude. She was inducted as a member of the Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honor Society. She also received an Associate’s degree in Interior Design from Cuyahoga Community College where she graduated Cum Laude and served as president of its chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). In her spare time, Rachel is on the Executive Committee of the DC Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America.